Quote

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

Lydia M. Child

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lydia M. Child
Age: 78 †
Born: 1802
Born: January 1
Died: 1880
Died: January 1
Activist
Geologist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
Lost
Particles
Keep
Appearance
Truth
Contrary
May
Goodness
Ever
However
Really
Quite
Sure
Particle
Working
Appearances

More quotes by Lydia M. Child

Image
All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.
Lydia M. Child
Image
Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
Lydia M. Child
Image
The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
Lydia M. Child
Image
Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.
Lydia M. Child
Image
Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
Lydia M. Child
Image
A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.
Lydia M. Child
Image
I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
Lydia M. Child
Image
Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
Lydia M. Child
Image
To everything there is a bright side and a dark side and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.
Lydia M. Child
Image
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals She never produces classes.
Lydia M. Child
Image
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.
Lydia M. Child
Image
So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!
Lydia M. Child
Image
Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.
Lydia M. Child
Image
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
Lydia M. Child
Image
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.
Lydia M. Child
Image
I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. With all his deficiencies, it must be admitted that he has grown continually.
Lydia M. Child
Image
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child
Image
[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
Lydia M. Child
Image
It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end.
Lydia M. Child
Image
Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
Lydia M. Child